Deadly 60
Deadly 60 is a program for youth on CBBC. Steve Backshall tracks down 60 of the world's deadliest animals in Deadly 60. The popular program has been available since 2024. A total of 108 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2025.
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Deadly 60
Steve Backshall is in the Kalahari to search for its weirdest residents. From aardwolves to aardvarks and mischievous meerkats, Steve is hoping for some Deadly firsts.
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Steve Backshall is in Australia to search for the world’s most freaky and venomous fish: the stone fish. He also finds trapdoor spiders and a snake that hunts bats.
Steve Backshall is in Brazil searching for the world’s most elusive cat: the jaguar. He sees them swimming, meets mothers and cubs, and even witnesses one jaguar hunting a caiman.
Series 2
Wildlife series. Steve chases a deadly racer snake downriver and even faces his fears to handle some giant bullet ants, while on the hunt for a harpy eagle.
Series 6
Steve Backshall is in Sydney, Australia, searching for the world’s most venomous spider, the fastest striking snake and an ocean dragon that is a camouflaged assassin.
Steve Backshall is in Zambia to witness ten million fruit bats undertake the world’s largest aerial migration. However, these bats are a buffet for Africa’s top three eagles.
Steve is underwater in Indonesia with funny-looking frogfish, a stargazer, flamboyant cuttlefish, a mimic octopus and a Bobbit worm.
Steve dives with 100 grey nurse sharks - aka ragged-tooth sharks - a wobbegong and a gigantic whale shark, and he joins a mission in Indonesia to save sharks from over-fishing with eco-tourism.
Steve Backshall tracks cheetahs across Zambia by motorbike, witnessing epic hunting and the challenges faced by this endangered predator.
Series 2
Wildlife series. In the jungles of Costa Rica, Steve is strangled by a boa, gets hands-on with a poisonous frog and nearly gets a nip from a blood-sucking vampire.
Series 4
Steve gets strangled by a python on a night-time river expedition, climbs a 40-metre tree and finds out why our thirst for palm oil is threatening bears and orangutans.
Steve heads to Ecuador to dive with the giant manta ray. He also gets a unique view of the biggest baby on Earth and rescues a turtle caught in a fishing line.
Steve witnesses a serval hunting in the weird surroundings of a power station at night, puts snakes to the test in a chomp-off and meets a rare spider.
Steve heads to Norway to dive with the planet’s ultimate predator - the orca. He also witnesses the northern lights and gets up close to the mighty mouth of a humpback whale.
Steve travels to Gabon for the first time. Exploring Loango National Park, Steve goes in search of crocodiles, surprisingly deadly chimpanzees and feisty forest elephants.
Series 5
Steve goes in search of ocean acrobats, mischievous coyotes and deadlies in miniature - but he ends up having an encounter with a humpback whale he will never forget!
Series 2
Wildlife series. Steve and the crew are thrown deep in the steamy rainforests of Costa Rica. They are on a mission to find the largest cat in South America, the jaguar.
Wildlife series. Steve Backshall takes to icy waters in search of the world's biggest sea lion, and there's a surprise in store when Steve meets the infamous black bear.
Series 4
Steve sets sail to Bali for a diving adventure to find a giant ocean sunfish. He rescues fish trapped in an abandoned net and meets the teenagers fighting to ban plastic bags on the island.
Series 6, Episode 9 - Otter Hide and Seek
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Steve Backshall dives into the world of the caiman, learns about the plight of the world’s biggest parrot and tries to find his nemesis - the giant river otter.